#microfiction

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #microfiction from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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78
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
70
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0.6/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
5.4
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 07:29 UTC
11
09-03
12
09-04
13
09-05
15
09-06
5
09-07
19
09-08
3
09-09

78 uses by 70 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-09 07:29 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 07:29 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~69 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (37) · German (2)

Avg boosts / post: 5.8

Top of the latest posts

  • When AI took over, the world became stuck at the knowledge level of 2020. It couldn't move beyond, due to the risk of poisoning the well. This was seen by quite some elected politicians and investors as a good thing. Science stopped progres

    Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:@[email protected]72352026-09-08 16:45 UTCView post →
  • "It's a robot, get it!" "My pronouns are she/her, thank you" "I don't care what you call yourself pervert!" "Oh, have you been using the internet. Please let me explain" "Explain what, vikker?" "The three laws of privacy. A robot may not re

    Kit Bashir@[email protected]69332026-09-06 22:55 UTCView post →
  • "They don't think, they just regurgitate their training data" "Well *mine* created a whole business plan for my new venture" "It's just memorizing, they probably re-used the imp out of somebody's old disorganiser" "No, Artificed Imptelligen

    Kit Bashir@[email protected]51232026-09-07 19:50 UTCView post →

What “microfiction” means

Wikipedia

Flash fiction is a fiction narrative in the form of a very short piece of writing, which still offers a character arc or implies a larger story. Some commentators believe flash fiction possesses a unique literary quality in its ability to hint at that larger story. It is briefer even that the traditional format of the short story.

Flash fiction” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#microfiction across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #microfiction straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/microfiction